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241 articles available in total starting from 24/02/2003. Last article published on 29/10/2025.

Maurizio Sciarra  • Conference curator, Euro Balkan Film Festival

Interview: Maurizio Sciarra • Conference curator, Euro Balkan Film Festival

“European films and audiovisual products have been great when they’ve been able to express different sensibilities and perspectives”

Unspooling in the heart of Rome, this year’s Euro Balkan Film Festival is becoming a political and cultural laboratory on the future of European cinema  

29/10 | /Italy

Olena Yershova • Producer of Dream Girl

Interview: Olena Yershova • Producer of Dream Girl

“It always starts with faith in a filmmaker”

Meeting with the Ukrainian producer based in Turkey, who discusses Kaan Mujdeci's new project, which she is spearheading with her company TatoFilm  

23/10 | Cinemed 2025 | Cinemed Meetings

Mario Bova • Director, Euro Balkan Film Festival

Interview: Mario Bova • Director, Euro Balkan Film Festival

“The festival offers audiences a selection of testimonies that move from the anguish of war towards hope for the future”

The festival director discusses how cinema can help heal the wounds of memory, and his goal of building bridges between the Balkans and Western Europe  

01/10 | /Italy

Şeyhmus Altun • Director of As We Breathe

Interview: Şeyhmus Altun • Director of As We Breathe

“I believe that what remains unsaid can be more powerful than what is spoken”

The Turkish filmmaker reveals the personal memories that inspired his hypnotic debut feature, and tells us more about its mysticism and subtlety  

22/09 | San Sebastián 2025 | New Directors

Review: As We Breathe

Review: As We Breathe

Turkish filmmaker Seyhmus Altun’s debut feature chronicles a smouldering fire within a family, and the subconscious attempts of a father and daughter to prevent it from blazing  

10/09 | Toronto 2025 | Discovery

Review: Divine Comedy

Review: Divine Comedy

VENICE 2025: Ali Asgari’s metafictional sibling to Terrestrial Verses takes a deep dive into the absurdity buried within the world of Iranian film censorship  

06/09 | Venice 2025 | Orizzonti

The seventh 12 Punto platform wraps with its awards ceremony

The seventh 12 Punto platform wraps with its awards ceremony

TRT’s leading script-development and co-production platform concludes its latest edition, celebrating a new wave of film projects from the Bosphorus  

23/07 | 12 Punto 2025 | Awards

Global figures join the jury of 12 Punto's seventh edition

Global figures join the jury of 12 Punto's seventh edition

With a renewed focus on international collaboration and a special section on Palestinian cinema, Turkey's leading co-production platform has unveiled its jury and programme  

15/07 | 12 Punto 2025

Gözde Kural • Director of Cinema Jazireh

Interview: Gözde Kural • Director of Cinema Jazireh

“I didn’t want one story, but rather a small world of memory and resilience”

The Turkish director unveils the challenges of filming her second feature in Afghanistan and speaks out about the oppression faced by both genders under the Taliban  

14/07 | Karlovy Vary 2025 | Competition

Review: Cinema Jazireh

Review: Cinema Jazireh

In her second feature, Turkish filmmaker Gözde Kural pairs an unrelentingly bleak story with a sensitive observational approach  

14/07 | Karlovy Vary 2025 | Competition

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